May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
552 pages
13h 37m
English
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Name
textobject — A wrapper for a text description of an object and its associated meta-information
Synopsis
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((annotation | bridgehead |
remark | revhistory | Indexing inlines | Admonition elements | Formal elements | Graphic elements | Informal elements | List elements | Paragraph elements | Publishing elements | Synopsis elements | Technical elements | Verbatim elements)+ |
phrase db.phrase |
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Attribute synopsis
Description
A textobject is a wrapper containing a textual
description of a media object and its associated meta-information. A
textobject is only allowed in
mediaobject as a fallback. It cannot be the primary
content.
There are two different forms of textobject,
and it is not unreasonable for a media object to contain both of
them.
In the first form, the content of a textobject
is simply a phrase. This form is a mechanism for
providing a simple “alt text” for a media object. The
phrase might be used, for example, as the value of the alt attribute on an HTML
img, with
the primary content of the image coming from one of the other objects in
the media object.
In the second form, the content of textobject
is a longer, prose description. This form could be used when rendering
to devices that are incapable of displaying any of the other
alternatives.
Processing expectations
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context. It might not be rendered at all, depending ...
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